07.04.2006
Bekking increases the pace
Tonight there is a mere 335 nautical miles separating Bouwe Bekking’s boys on movistar from the long awaited Island, Fernando de Noronha and potentially first place at the scoring gate. They have managed to pull out a further four miles in the past six hours, now 29 nautical miles in front of second place.
Throughout the day the lost souls onboard The Black Pearl (Paul Cayard) have been looking over their shoulder at the Dutch black boat ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) thundering up from behind. And finally Paul’s worst nightmare has manifested itself as they lose second to Black Betty.
Paul Cayard only today has been talking about how mentally hard it is knowing that even if Mike Sanderson and his men on ABN AMRO ONE make a mistake it seems to him that their speed advantage let’s them get away with it. After this afternoon’s performance and the extra three miles Mike has pulled out in front of them, Paul must be having a hard night out there.
Yet Mike has admitted one mistake today and it was a big one in the eyes of his crew. Mike’s best friend and fellow crewmate for many years Brad Jackson had his birthday onboard ABN AMRO ONE today. Brad’s wife kindly gave Mike a present for Brad and the rest for crew in Rio and when asked by the whole crew where the present of chocolate bars were, silence fell as Mike admitted leaving them behind. But at least the disappointed crew can console themselves with second place tonight.
The positions further back in the fleet have not changed in the past six hours with Ericsson Racing Team (John Kostecki) in fourth, Brasil 1 (Torben Grael) in fifth and 21 nautical miles behind them, ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) lie in last place.
LEG FIVE DAY 5, 06.04.06, 2200 GMT POSITION REPORT
YACHT
Latitude
Longitude
DTF
SMG
24 Hour Run
24 Hour Speed
DTL
DTLC
PLPTS
PTLPTS
ETA
POP
PROJECTED POSITION OVERALL
1
MOVI
09 15.33S
033 58.97W
03927
12.1
272
11.3
00000
+00000
7.0
7.0
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38.0
3
2
ABN1
09 41.42S
034 13.88W
03956
11.7
269
11.2
00029
-00002
6.0
6.0
18/04/06 __:__:__
58.5
1
3
POTC
09 45.00S
034 09.83W
03959
11.1
254
10.6
00032
-00007
5.0
5.0
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36.5
4
4
ERIC
09 50.30S
034 24.36W
03968
11.2
258
10.8
00041
-00004
4.0
4.0
18/04/06 __:__:__
27.5
6
5
BRA1
09 54.00S
034 25.71W
03972
11.3
259
10.8
00045
-00004
3.0
3.0
18/04/06 __:__:__
31.5
5
6
ABN2
10 15.18S
034 28.07W
03993
11.5
256
10.7
00066
-00003
2.0
2.0
18/04/06 __:__:__
38.5
2
ABN1 ABN AMRO ONE
ABN2 ABN AMRO TWO
BRA1 Brasil 1
ERIC Ericsson Racing Team
MOVI movistar
POTC Pirates of the Caribbean
DTF: distance to finish, SMG: Speed made good, DTL: distance to leader,
DTLC: distance to leader change; the difference between the distance from the boat to the leader taken at the time of the last six hour poll, and the distance from the boat to the leader at the previous poll
SGPTS: points scored at scoring gates on this leg to date
PLPTS: projected leg points
PTLPTS: projected total leg points including actual points from scoring gates
POP: projected overall points including actual points from scoring gates
OVERALL: projected position in race overall if yacht maintains current position
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